I would like to know how a dog with a nosebleed go from having normal vitals to being dead within an hour. We brought our precious dog in with a continuous nosebleed. We waited for 30 minutes to be seen. We expressed our concern that our dog was losing a lot of blood. The tech said ""It's only a nosebleed. Her vitals are normal. The Dr. will be in to see you in awhile."" He was very cold, not showing a bit of concern. When the Dr. (starts with Ch) finally came in, he said they were going to sedate her, not anesthetize, and give her epinephrine in the nose to stop her bleeding. He never told us that she was in ""guarded"" condition, as he would later write in his notes. He told us to come back before 7:00 a.m. and that we could call and check on her during the night. He, too, was very cold and matter of fact. He never, in our presence, bent down to examine our dog once. That should have been a warning sign there. We hadn't been home an hour before the tech called us and told us very matter of fact that our dog was dead. These people are not just inept, they are very cold and uncaring. This place needs to be investigated for its shoddy care. The Dr. wrote in his report that after our dog was sedated, she tried to get up a couple of times so they assumed she was okay and didn't call us. Hey Dr., have you ever heard of taking vital signs to see if the patient is okay? It's possible she was in distress and was trying to let somebody know. Maybe then, we would still have our dog. Let this be a warning for anyone who has no other choice but to go there. DO NOT sign a DNR as we did, because our dog was elderly. If you do, you are just signing a death warrant, for your beloved pet to be stuck somewhere and ignored. If they treat them bad in the examining room, just imagine how they treat them behind closed doors. DO NOT go home and leave your animal there. Make sure you visit your animal hourly. We have to live with the consequences of our decision to take her there. Hopefully, no one will have to go through what we did.
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